“There’s no hope anymore” Redskins fan organizes March on Ashburn

When large segments of professional players, ownership and league executive leadership decided to adopt a political context to frame around what is essentially a game with a scoring mechanism that has a winner and a loser they moved from entertainment to cultural and social preaching often sanctimonious and deeply embedded in the progressive political venue. Why are all forms of mass entertainment falling on declining audiences and associated ratings? Perhaps because they don’t entertain anymore as they move on to more important issues (to them not their audiences) they believe they must deal with.

And who in the participating sports audience of leftists and outraged millennials that this shift was apparently directed at cares the least regarding the game in the first place as their sport of choice is staged protest and tossing bricks through shop windows. Tape about three hours of ESPN as I did recently and play it back at high scan speed to try and estimate the amount of pure political content to actual sports information and see if you don’t come up with about a 60/40 breakdown of politics to sports as I did.

You may care where a Cousins is or is not going but you are in a shrinking minority and just like any franchise, which Washington football is, if your marketing is stupid to the point of engaging in open viewer antagonism, your product overpriced often drawn out and boring to boot (not to mention in Washington’s case just plain consistently bad) the only thing you have accomplished for treading down this path is killing the NFL as an American cultural icon (the leftist objective in the first place) and the devaluation of your franchise price. The NFL along with Starbucks are the poster children on how to ruin a multi-billion dollar entertainment business in record time.